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Home Education Series Vol. I: Home Education

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Home Education Series Vol. I: Home Education

by Charlotte Mason

English· 11:50:14· 66 chapters
This is the first volume in the Home Education Series detailing Charlotte Mason's method of education. This volume is subtitled: The Education of Children under Nine Years of Age. The series is used today by many homeschoolers around the globe and is considered a classic reference by the founder of the homeschooling movement. Volume 1 of 6. - Summary by rachelrw
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Preface to the Home Education Series

    14:06
  2. Chapter 2

    Preface to the Fourth Edition

    04:15
  3. Chapter 3

    Part 1: Some Preliminary Considerations

    09:45
  4. Chapter 4

    Part 1 Chapter 1: A Method of Education

    09:41
  5. Chapter 5

    Part 1 Chapter 2: The Child's Estate

    04:56
  6. Chapter 6

    Part 1 Chapter 3: Offending the Children

    09:04
  7. Chapter 7

    Part 1 Chapter 4: Despising the Children

    04:25
  8. Chapter 8

    Part 1 Chapter 5: Hindering the Children

    02:32
  9. Chapter 9

    Part 1 Chapter 6: Conditions of Healthy Brain-Activity

    28:33
  10. Chapter 10

    Part 1 Chapter 7: 'The Reign of Law' in Education

    06:27
  11. Chapter 11

    Part 2 Chapter 1: A Growing Time

    07:07
  12. Chapter 12

    Part 2 Chapter 2: 'Sight-Seeing'

    04:47
  13. Chapter 13

    Part 2 Chapter 3: 'Picture-Painting'

    06:28
  14. Chapter 14

    Part 2 Chapter 4: Flowers and Trees

    09:41
  15. Chapter 15

    Part 2 Chapter 5: 'Living Creatures'

    12:36
  16. Chapter 16

    Part 2 Chapter 6: Field-Lore and Naturalists' Books

    05:53
  17. Chapter 17

    Part 2 Chapter 7: The Child gets Knowledge by Means of His Senses

    09:37
  18. Chapter 18

    Part 2 Chapter 8: The Child Should be Made Familiar with Natural Objects

    04:44
  19. Chapter 19

    Part 2 Chapter 9: Out-of-Door Geography

    11:48
  20. Chapter 20

    Part 2 Chapter 10: The Child and Mother Nature

    04:35
  21. Chapter 21

    Part 2 Chapter 11: Out-of-Door Games

    10:41
  22. Chapter 22

    Part 2 Chapter 12: Walks in Bad Weather

    08:01
  23. Chapter 23

    Part 2 Chapter 13: 'Red Indian' Life

    08:34
  24. Chapter 24

    Part 2 Chapter 14: The Children Require Country Air

    05:56
  25. Chapter 25

    Part 3 Chapter 1: Education Based Upon Natural Law

    03:18
  26. Chapter 26

    Part 3 Chapter 2: Children Have no Self-Compelling Power

    05:27
  27. Chapter 27

    Part 3 Chapter 3: What is 'Nature'

    10:11
  28. Chapter 28

    Part 3 Chapter 4: Habit May Supplant 'Nature'

    06:13
  29. Chapter 29

    Part 3 Chapter 5: The Laying Down of Lines of Habit

    08:08
  30. Chapter 30

    Part 3 Chapter 6: The Physiology of Habit

    13:28
  31. Chapter 31

    Part 3 Chapter 7: The Forming of a Habit---'Shut the Door After You'

    12:46
  32. Chapter 32

    Part 3 Chapter 8: Infant 'Habits'

    15:00
  33. Chapter 33

    Part 3 Chapter 9: Physical Exercises

    04:47
  34. Chapter 34

    Part 4: Some Habits of Mind---Some Moral Habits

    04:43
  35. Chapter 35

    Part 4 Chapter 1: The Habit of Attention

    24:49
  36. Chapter 36

    Part 4 Chapter 2: The Habits of Application, Etc.

    01:37
  37. Chapter 37

    Part 4 Chapter 3: The Habit of Thinking

    02:56
  38. Chapter 38

    Part 4 Chapter 4: The Habit of Imagining

    06:27
  39. Chapter 39

    Part 4 Chapter 5: The Habit of Remembering

    10:05
  40. Chapter 40

    Part 4 Chapter 6: The Habit of Perfect Execution

    03:14
  41. Chapter 41

    Part 4 Chapter 7: Some Moral Habits

    07:19
  42. Chapter 42

    Part 4 Chapter 8: Truthfulness, Etc.

    09:24
  43. Chapter 43

    Part 5 Chapter 1: The Matter and Method of Lessons

    18:32
  44. Chapter 44

    Part 5 Chapter 2: The Kindergarten as a Place of Education

    07:29
  45. Chapter 45

    Part 5 Chapter 3: Further Considerations of the Kindergarten

    36:25
  46. Chapter 46

    Part 5 Chapter 4: Reading

    14:41
  47. Chapter 47

    Part 5 Chapter 5: The First Reading Lesson

    13:02
  48. Chapter 48

    Part 5 Chapter 6: Reading by Sight and by Sound

    16:12
  49. Chapter 49

    Part 5 Chapter 7: Recitation

    09:36
  50. Chapter 50

    Part 5 Chapter 8: Reading for Older Children

    08:06
  51. Chapter 51

    Part 5 Chapter 9: The Art of Narrating

    05:34
  52. Chapter 52

    Part 5 Chapter 10: Writing

    08:47
  53. Chapter 53

    Part 5 Chapter 11: Transcription

    04:22
  54. Chapter 54

    Part 5 Chapter 12: Spelling and Dictation

    05:50
  55. Chapter 55

    Part 5 Chapter 13: Composition

    08:20
  56. Chapter 56

    Part 5 Chapter 14: Bible Lessons

    10:26
  57. Chapter 57

    Part 5 Chapter 15: Arithmetic

    21:47
  58. Chapter 58

    Part 5 Chapter 16: Natural Philosophy

    15:07
  59. Chapter 59

    Part 5 Chapter 17: Geography

    15:02
  60. Chapter 60

    Part 5 Chapter 18: History

    29:02
  61. Chapter 61

    Part 5 Chapter 19: Grammar

    10:37
  62. Chapter 62

    Part 5 Chapter 20: French

    13:22
  63. Chapter 63

    Part 5 Chapter 21: Pictorial Art, Etc.

    17:15
  64. Chapter 64

    Part 6 Chapter 1: The Will

    22:24
  65. Chapter 65

    Part 6 Chapter 2: The Conscience

    22:05
  66. Chapter 66

    Part 6 Chapter 3: The Divine Life in the Child

    22:07